Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-417) and index

Prologue: The first American women -- Working women in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America -- Black women in colonial America -- Working women in the American Revolution -- The transition : 1783-1815 -- The factory bell : 1815-1860 -- Binding shoes and other trades -- In factory and field : Black women and slavery in America, 1808-1860 -- Women in the Civil War and Reconstruction : 1861-1877 -- Women on the home front and in the industrial era : 1861-1881 -- Women in the Knights of Labor : 1881-1886 -- Women workers and the early American Federation of Labor : 1866-1910 -- Women's wages, women's work -- Women in teaching and white-collar jobs -- Working women of the West : 1800-1900 -- Working women in the National Women's Trade Union League : 1903-1914 -- The rise of the woman garment worker : New York, 1909-1910 -- Women in the men's clothing trades : a new union, 1910-1914 -- Women of the mills and mines : 1900-1914 -- Women in the Industrial Workers of the World : the Lawrence Strike, 1912 -- "In unvanquishable number ..."

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